Kendrick Lamar Still Feels Anger & Hatred On 'The Blacker The Berry’ (Pt. 3) | MTV News

no one in mainstream media these days is as honest as kendrick is and that says alot about famous artists today

Love is love regardless the way you deal with your pain and memories depends how you reflect on the times you survive the devil's teeth 🙏 salute brother ✊

The themes of Mr Morale and TPAB are very similar, except Mr Morale is more focused on therapy and self reflection. I’m glad Kendrick started going to therapy and he is one of the very few artists/rappers who openly admit to going to therapy. It takes a lot of balls to open up about past trauma and I’m glad he did that. Therapy is good. He’s one of a kind.

Kendrick is genius and well spoken love you Kendrick.

Black righteous power makes you a King all you have to do is fullfil your dream 🙏🙏👍💯

2022,I'm still here

Such a great interview.

Tupac touch this man with the goods and we are witnessing another prophet

This is a solid interview, so props to MTV, but man, I cannot think of another artist other than 3 stacks that I appreciate more than Kendrick, maybe Mos Def is in there too.

Ill Will

I can’t figure out if he killed someone or not

Those who criticised the final lyrics on The Blacker The Berry did not pay enough attention to GKMC - which is all a true story.

KUNG FU KENNY😍🔥❤🙈

Kendrick > nas

Maybe if you put out a song where you’re super angry and assuming all whites are hateful, don’t be surprised by the response 🤦🏻 you goofball

Idk why I’m just now seeing this I didn’t think he did interviews at all

Second comment today but I love how the interviewer directs the conversation away from the mark where KDot is clearly feeling/becoming upset and hurt. (Blacker the berry moment). He could have definitely capitalized and exploited that vulnerability Kendrick was clearly falling into but instead, he drove the convo away from that and I think it’s definitely because he has mad respect for KD as a MAN and a leader and I feel he genuinely appreciates kendricks music and character. Love this snippet of the interview so much for those reasons mainly. Beautifully done. I hope they do another one (no dj Khalid voice…but fine whatever 😆🙄) soon. Love this so much!!!!

Facts people have been tryna change the meaning of the N word for the longgestt even w/ tupac etc stating Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished i love to hear and see it.

Too much wisdom in his soul ❤️❤️❤️

As a latino Blacker The Berry hits hards in the feelings. I understand where he is coming from and also want answers on what to do about the ongoing issue at hand. Should we all leave together as dust, as we came, or do we fight until the hatred spreads into our soul...

im balling my eyes out. this mans vibe is making me so emotional. i can’t believe ive never got to get into his music

This mans music will be played for generations

Not only is this one of the best rap track of all times, the 3rd verse is enough for Kendrick to gain maximal respect from me. After slamming perennial bigots and pointing out the racist background of his country, he has the intellectual honesty to put on the table themes like individual responsability and the obvious contradictions, moreso the hypocrisy of some activists rhetoric. Kendrick Lamar is everything but a victim. He’s a free thinker.

I'm Xhosa, I have Zulu friends down here is South Africa and we both belong to the Nguni People. On the third verse he mentions the tribal wars/civil wars. They were meant to be fighting the white man who was invading their lands yet ended up rubbing each other the wrong way.

Even closer to democratic South Africa in '94 there were politically and tribaly motivated fights and killings between the tribed down in KZN and JHB.

No historian but...

I love this guy man, pray him and his stay blessed eternally

the blacker the berry slaps so hard the energy and hatred in these bars are one of a kind

Kendrick is one of them people with the rare ability to speak on something and it remains relevant years after

In a world of performers, Kendrick is a god damn artist.

venerability

Kendrick looked at it from both angles. You can’t kill people you claim to have love for, and he’s also calling out the racial divide that still exists. He knows change starts from within, you can’t talk about others before making the change within yourself. Leading by example; a lot of us do a bunch of talking, and haven’t made a change within ourselves, dude was speaking from his own experiences, and just praying that will lead to change.

One man’s reflection of black on black violence does not equal the undermining of the historic oppression of an entire community, especially when the majority of the song is an incarnation of his rage towards institutionalization. Even on top of that, he's talking about his own experiences with gang violence. I guess media perception really has gotten “black and white” as to assume that his message was one-dimensional and assert the preachiness that's usually attributed to political and conscious rap.

all his albums is story telling, thats why he's taking so long

How silly does the interviewer look with that side hat? 😂

What I got from blacker the berry was we are killing are own for what.

This is a personal talk..

Man.... Section 80 is like his Illmatic... even the Untitled Lp comes very close to that.... Damn is his Thriller though!

I tore down a lot in my own community. Wow!!!! Acceptance.

I love how he is comfortable with silence

Yes you spoke

Can´t take him for real after i saw him get a fan on stage to rap the lyrics and then goes on to be suprised when she dropped the N-Bomb (cause it´s in the lyrics).

"I am the community".... nah you're just another mosquito in the universe

"It's funny how Zulu and Xhosa might go to war
Two tribal armies that want to build and destroy..."

That's south african History

He knows who he is.. an Israelite

Eye appreciate him voicing the fact that HE has contributed to the detriment of his own community. Anyone that thinks they haven't in SOME WAY is dillusional. Th-ankh u Kendrick for your honesty and integrity. Heartfelt interview❤

This dude it's powerful. Blessed to grow up with the dudes words in my ears since '11. Blessed.

We all know who the f*** he's talking about cut the s***